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“Rebounding wins championships, you need to emphasize it and work with kids on it.”
-Former Tennessee women’s coach Pat Summitt.

Pat Summitt’s championship pedigree validates the importance of rebounds. Winning the rebounding battle is crucial to winning the game because more rebounds lead to more shot attempts. More shot attempts lead to more wins.

The Gauntlet Rebounding drill is designed to give your team the competitive fire to compete for every single rebound. Your players will be forced to fight for position to grab rebounds. Feel free to add incentives to give your players motivation to play hard in this drill. Note: Any made shot counts as a live ball situation.

Basketball is one of the most well-liked, and widely sighted, sports in the world and there are many techniques and practices such a shooting, dribbling, passing and rebounding. In this article I’d like to share some of my thoughts to tackle rebounding and its component: “Boxing Out”.

Box outing an opponent usually happens when a players goes for a rebound on offense and on defense. It is the time when a player tries to position himself first, and disabling the opponent from getting a good position for the rebound. Let’s have a look at what rebounding is all about. According to Wikipedia’s definition, the objective of rebounding is to successfully gain possession of the basketball after a missed field goal or free throw, as it rebounds from the hoop or backboard. Rebounding is very crucial to get as much chance as you can to shoot the ball into the basket.